April 12
2005

Blair wouldn't tie his shoelaces without his PR people telling him it would be popular, I doubt he's ever seen ASH or that he could pick him out of a lineup. He tried to get a cameo spot in Little Britain playing the PM but they turned him down.

Precisely! I won't turn this into a soapbox for my political views but i seriously doubt that Blair knows anything about Tony other than him being "that fellow who plays my part in that Little Britain show". I really can't stand it when politicians try to sound hip by spouting a few popular names or mentioning the latest band to get to number one, like they actually bought the cd.

Let me guess, after he mentioned Tony in Little Britain he ended with a bad impression, something along the lines of "yeah but ... no but ... yeah but ... no but ...", that sounds about right. :)

I don't care if Blair wants ASH to play him, to get the deal all he has to do is speak to the BBC about 'Ripper' and pull some strings. Then we get our spin off, ASH gets work and Blair has a very good actor portray him. I am sure ASH career wouldn't suffer too much from that ;)

I don't care if he was advised to say it - it's still less hubristic than thinking Sean Connery should play you. Though the Tory leader thinking he's like a sinister Godfather is at least refreshingly honest.

phleb, I watched a number of Little Britain eps on flights to and from the UK recently. Very funny in places, but, IMHO, not so much laugh out loud funny as "that's very acutely observed and clever and quirky" funny. And, to be honest, I found Tom Baker's linking narratives really irritating. So, not a huge fan, and LB is not as much to my taste as, say, "Spaced," which I can never promote enough on this site . . . ;)

Little Britain is cool. It's designed to be cool - it's full of catchphrases that teenagers have adopted. Tony looks as if he is constantly fighting a fit of the giggles in it!

Charles Kennedy is the guy who mentioned Connery. Anyone less like him now, or even in his youth is hard to imagine, apart from the Scots accent. Kennedy has a very strong sense of humour and a satirical edge to him, so I really don't believe he meant it seriously.

Once again I find myself agreeing with SNT, not so big with the LB love. I like Daffyd (maybe because I'm Welsh? :) ) and I like Lou and Andy, but most of the other characters leave me somewhat cold. Nice to see ASH doing well though. Spaced on the other hand, as I've also said numerous times here, is pure genius.

Just looked for Spaced on amazon.com and unsurprisingly the 1st 2 items are Shaun of the Dead (the success of which might lead to Spaced getting a US release...) and the 3rd link is season one of The League of Gentlemen. Quite surprised that got a US release, don't remember hearing any Americans talk about it, was it shown over there?